What does Indigenous archaeology offer archaeologists who do not work on Native land, at Indigenous sites, or with Indigenous people? This article demonstrates the broad applicability of Indigenous archaeology and the way ...

This paper explores the story of settlers overcoming challenges
common to the environment of expanding agricultural frontiers,
and how this is reflected on the land-use and livelihood choices
that unfold with the aging ...

Using a combination of oral tradition and written documents, the authors show that Benin's civil war was a fundamental transformation of political structure, and not simply an isolated struggle. Before 1640, Benin was ...

Pyburn, K. Anne(Wiley-Blackwell: AP3A for the American Anthropology Association, 2008)

A generation of archaeologists has shown that gender stereotyping has impeded our ability to understand the political economy, social organization, and cultural changes that are reflected in archaeological data. But feminist ...

People care about archaeology for a variety of competing reasons. Archaeologists no longer ignore this as they once did, but few have come to terms on a pragmatic level with their responsibility to the public. Here I outline ...

Background: Several components of dairy products have been linked to earlier menarche.
Methods/Findings: This study assessed whether positive associations exist between childhood milk consumption and age
at menarche or ...